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[General Questions and Answers] broken09:
I got my first android phone (Samsung Galaxy W I8150), because i needed an touch-smartphone because i hated it to reply with the T9 tastatur and because it gaves many things what i need with a smartphone and as i buyed mine it was the best for me, because the screen, price and hardware.
[General Questions and Answers] trashkutscher:
My main reason for the decision to buy Android was that I could get two Phones (one for my Wife and one for my daughter) for the price of one Iphone4s. I really like these Android phones.
[General Questions and Answers] Sethi1985:
Hehehe... i bought my android phone cause the thousands of app avaible at free or small price..

had a N12 with windows mobile...

only app i would get was the SPB shell's, hee

on android.. i have more than 50 apps installed already..

i love it!:)
[General Questions and Answers] karkand:
i bought android phone it's cause to make different from my brother have used other os like blackberry...and HH with android os is the best i've ever used at all
[General Questions and Answers] spicagenmod:
because i wanted to try android
[General Questions and Answers] karkand:
it's same with me
[General Questions and Answers] DeathlySpectator:
My first android was the Nexus One (which I'm still using), loved it. Only original got it because I was choosing between the N1 and the iPhone 3GS, and I've already got an iPod touch (2nd Gen), so the N1 was the obvious choice.
[General Questions and Answers] Dubbee:
I got my HTC Inspire 4G because I was on an old old Blackjack running WM6 and I decided to upgrade to an iPhone. However I'm with AT&T in the US and I have an old unlimited data plan which I did not want to give up. I went back and forth with AT&T about allowing me to use an iPhone with this plan which they insisted was "incompatible" and used "different technology" and "wouldn't work." I called bull**** but eventually gave in and what I got was a WP7 phone, based on the recommendation of a friend who said it was an up and coming platform and looked really sleek.

I tried to like the WP7 phone. I really tried. But oh how I hated it. The more I used it the more I despised it, I felt hemmed in, controlled, limited. Like somebody in Redmond had made all the decisions about how the phone should be used. I still bristle when I think about it.

I returned that WP7 phone within the trial period and looked around for a phone that would suit my style. I had never looked at an Android phone before and people I had talked to (iPhone people mainly) claimed they were "buggy." But I started figuring it was worth a shot before buckling under to AT&T and giving up my unlimited data plan.

I played with the HTC Inspire in the store and was sold on the spot. The more I use it the more I love it. My wife calls it my girlfriend. Oh the love!
[General Questions and Answers] Waddle:
I wanted to try something different than everyone else.
[General Questions and Answers] davemonkee:
I was in need of an upgrade and the G1 just came out, the rest is history
[General Questions and Answers] jhnsmith08:
In my case, i really dnt like iphone(actually apple products!)...thats why i took an android :)
[General Questions and Answers] Danmanlott:
I went into the AT&T store to get the 3gs, my brother got it a few weeks before, they had them but they needed a manager to open the box, as we waited he pitched me android, He let me play around with his Atrix, after an hour I was settling on a HTC Inspire 4g, I love it so much.
[General Questions and Answers] Javillanueva67:
Rooting

Because full privileges after rooting
[General Questions and Answers] Alex530:
Heard about the g1 from a friend and i didn't really find the iPhone attractive plus at the time i had Samsung keyboard phone and i wanted to keep the keyboard so i looked everywhere for a g1 and i traded it for a psp and 80 bucks. Best purchase ever :D. Ever since ive owned almost all of the T-Mobile android phones and i don't regret ever buyng any.
[General Questions and Answers] spacerace8:
My RAZR was terrible for porn.
[General Questions and Answers] benj9:
Was in need for something with a built-in terminal/shell console.
[General Questions and Answers] wailer247:
yeah. adb is an excellent utility. A lot of times I have gotten so used to using adb for a lot of stuff. it is incredibly easy to use IMO.
[General Questions and Answers] gascomm:
hate apple. wanted maps. android it was. the more i fiddle, the more i find : )
[General Questions and Answers] Sephentos:
#1 affordable

#2 flexible

#3 quality

#4 simplicity
[General Questions and Answers] aheeejd:
This guy is a troll. LG g3 forums, he donated, dev moved to Nexus 6, now he's all mad saying dev owes him

Sent from my LG-LS990 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[General Questions and Answers] Mainspring:
because I wanted to rock to a different drummer. :D

all my friends have Iphones and didn't want to subscribe to chruch of Apple.
[General Questions and Answers] Kailkti:
Because I wanted a sgs 2. But I'm interested in meego and Wp7 right now.

$1 gets you a reply
[General Questions and Answers] HumanXv2:
Because I got a wp7 first and I hated it, I'm not content leaving stuff alone so android is perfect for me and I love it so
[General Questions and Answers] madman_sle:
Decided to step into the smartphone market last year. Had a weekend sale at Best Buy for the Xperia X10 for FREE and I was hooked...traded up for the Infuse 4g because of the screen quality and size....CM7 is my addiction!
[General Questions and Answers] vetvito:
Because my Windows Phone sucked so much! Glad to be back

Sent from my Nexus S
[General Questions and Answers] adelmundo:
1. Being in IT, I like to tinker, so Android it is

2. Be different than every one else (because everyone I know owns iPhones)

3. Can't stand Apple and their worshipers
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Prior to wp7, it was the best option for the price. Now wp7 and ios seem to be upping their game while ICS seemed to add nothing but gimmicks. I'll stick with a gs2 til google stops thinking most of their customers are in it for gimmicks.
[General Questions and Answers] mtmerrick:
because

-i needed a smartphone

-there was no verizion iphone at the time

-everyone i know is on verizion so it actually saves me money and makes it easier on me in the long run

-i had used iphones and android phones before and i perfered froyo
[General Questions and Answers] usaff22:
Because I needed a smartphone and didn't want to give Apple any more money than they already were getting.
[General Questions and Answers] MrGarak:
Because I got that sick and tired of being an iPhone 3G owner.
[General Questions and Answers] slimslim:
At first, really pleased with the old winmo 5 series, painfully patient with 6.5 decided to give one more chance to windows phone 7, returned it in the first 30 days and got an Android. Didn't look back. Btw, even my friend's mother has an iPhone, and she's 57...
[General Questions and Answers] pakeeza1990:
yes i have get an andriod phone because it has lauched by google and really it is a function device and it is also giving me 100 percent results so thing is i trust on google services a lot and google is world wide websites designing and everthing else biggest search engine.
[General Questions and Answers] abellimz:
How is ics adding nothing but gimmicks? Hwa and e multitasking feature is really cool don't you think? They also redesigned the interface to make it very good IMHO. I personally find that ics has a lot of added functionality which wasn't advertised explicitly.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[General Questions and Answers] phbelov:
I got an Android phone because in my country it's not as expensive as the iPhone and there wasn't Windows Phone devices on the Russian market at that time. So, there wasn't any other choice :) (I didn't buy Symbian device because I had some experience with this OS earlier :D)
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
It still doesn't have hw acceleration, that's the worst part.
[General Questions and Answers] hammerlock13:
From Apples to Androids...

I played with iPhone when it came out. I thought it was kind-of neat. However, I saw limits imposed by gayT&T and Apple. Sure, My wife had a macbook and I since then purchased one for myself, but I do not consider myself one of those weirdo, cultists enthusiasts.. I'm just a Unix admin with some music equipment.. Anyway, iPhone and AT&T irritated me enough to try Android. It was a very positive change, and with the right Android device, you can do more than an iPhone can. Plus, I thought it was funny when Android got multi-touch and apple got angry... I would have to say.. Having the ability to use flash was definitely a major player in my decisions. Not allowing it, in my opinion, is just preposterous!
[General Questions and Answers] abellimz:
well, take a look at galaxy nexus forums, they removed software rendering to have only gpu rendering I think.

That was made possible thanks to ics framework.

Even more epic since apple did not invent multitouch.
[General Questions and Answers] dewayne25:
I got adroid because....

I came over from webos and being such a great and mod friendly os you get spoiled. The hardware with webos just sucked so badly, and iphone wasn't an option.
[General Questions and Answers] hemanth0126:
the best OS ever
[General Questions and Answers] SAI Peregrinus:
I wanted a phone with minimal moving parts, web browsing, and high customizability. iPhone had the first two, but not the last. Android had all 3. MeeGo looked to have all 3, but was taking forever, so I went with Android.
[General Questions and Answers] gamekill:
I was sick of the iPhone limitations and most of all, iTunes.
[General Questions and Answers] francois36boris:
I used a lot of google's stuff and I didn't like the iPhone. I was also short on money so I got a Galaxy 5 ( europa ) and hated it. One month ago I got a GSII and I'm loving it.
[General Questions and Answers] usaff22:
Google stuff like calendar and Gmail and also because it was cheaper and I thought I'd like to not be an Apple fanboy like everyone else
[General Questions and Answers] ShdwWolf:
I knew I didn't want an iPhone because I didn't want to be tied up with iTunes, but Verizon had a fledgling Android market at the time, so I waited with my LG Voyager hanging on by a thread. Then I heard rumors of an Incredible phone (haha, sorry about the pun) just over the horizon. I pre-ordered it and waited (semi)patiently. Then that fateful day in April came and I went to Best Buy and GOT MY INCREDIBLE! I haven't looked back. The ability to customize the layout, swap out the battery, even storage capacity....I believed and still believe that Android is the future of handheld devices, game consoles, even set top devices like cable boxes, etc. Just my opinion :)
[General Questions and Answers] wierdo124:
The D1 was friggin insane.
[General Questions and Answers] scorpionSE:
i got an android phone because...

windows mobile.... well no coments... :mad:

Iphone as someone sayd already here... limitations and that itunes...its just a pain.
[General Questions and Answers] cmike21:
i was drooling over the nexus one for a really long time, then, when the nexus s came out, i got the N1 on ebay for cheap.

I've been working on an app, and enjoy flashing roms
[General Questions and Answers] ramsesht:
My reasons were because I knew I just wasn't buying a phone or a tablet. The only thing I can't do with this is make it serve me beer and make me a steak.....yet.
[General Questions and Answers] scorpionSE:
Yeh lol it would be great iff my phone would bring the breakfast in bed :-D
[General Questions and Answers] imromulus:
That's why you find a good women, also with an Android =] lol.
[General Questions and Answers] krisando:
Was terribly disappointed at my Nokia "smat"phone, performance was bad, price was high, 3 different versions of operating system totally incompatible with each other (had S40), few applications, terribly build (always derailed and buttons fall off). Just was absolutely horrible, really happy with my Samsung, cost half the price and is better in every way. <3 GPS & touch screen.
[General Questions and Answers] Jaytronics:
Actually, it could do such a thing. With the NFC. capabilities and GPS and of course cellular connections. Oh, and wifi. You could make a little robot that does your bidding via an app with specific I/O commands and hardware. So, you may be able to have your cake and eat it also.
[General Questions and Answers] Archer:
The shop had run out of iPhones.
[General Questions and Answers] slapshot30:
To piss of Zeedevel :p
[General Questions and Answers] watt9493:
Cause ios and wp7 suck

-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
[General Questions and Answers] Kailkti:
lawl cool Grace **** Soup. :D
[General Questions and Answers] alisagarner:
I bought Android because there are many good applications available on the android market and above all it is much secure against virus.
[General Questions and Answers] nwolfe90:
well I like open source
[General Questions and Answers] gcuchiha:
I had a choice between 3 phones; Samsung galaxy s, Nokia n8, Nokia n800. IPhone 4 was out of reckoning as it costs more than twice the amount of any of the 3 phones in my country. My previous phone was Nokia and I wanted to try out Android and that was the best choice I ever made: D
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Actually laughed out loud.
[General Questions and Answers] ebe_robert:
Bcoz "Android is Cool" :cool:
[General Questions and Answers] papabear:
This was how I cam about the Android OS. I had been tinkering with WM5/6.x for a while, had an upgrade and gave it a shot. Needless to say I returned the G1. Attempted Blackberry Curve and a few others. I didn't mid the BB too much, as I didn't have time to tinker, mod, flash roms and such. But am on a grandfathered data plan (20$ w/ T-mo hotspot), and in order to send/receive MMS on BB you HAVE TO HAVE the BB plan, even though the CSR I spoke with said everything would work fine.

Had a Nokia dumbphone for a while after selling my remaining functional WM devices ( T-mo MDA and Wing). Finally decided to upgrade when I was able to get the T-mo HD2 for 50$ after MIR (100$ before) with 2yr contract. Thought about getting an android device, but at the time would have changed my plan and charged me extra $$. Did some research and saw the early stages of Android (SD card) for the HD2.

As I'm sure some of you know, HD2+android sd rom = crappy battery life. After that I tried a few different NAND roms and stuck with it.

(As seen in my thread in the HD7 forum) my HD2's screen was damaged. Just picked up a used pretty mint G2 running CM7 and couldn't be happier. HD2 was the first full touch phone that I had for more than a couple weeks. I loath touch keyboard, prefer the physical keyboard, which is why I picked up the G2 vs something else/newer.

Always disliked the iSheep, its lack of customability, and iTunes
[General Questions and Answers] ryan1918:
I got an android because I thought it was pretty neat and I had used previous one's and I ended up getting a samsung epic on sprint, then I got into a battle with them so I'm currently with boost, trying to unlock my epic, just running into one problem, but I like android but they should release the ice cream sandwich for my phone since It for sure would take it minus the one feature.
[General Questions and Answers] SonicReducer:
i bought it , because its fast, and it's very cool, and it's só customizable, and because of that i can make it more of my own, phone, and diferente of everybody elses
[General Questions and Answers] dimmah:
for sabotaging apple products hehe no because i like the sgs2 and there was android on it
[General Questions and Answers] densetsu86:
Reason why i got an android is cause i have a huge amount of distain for apple, didn't want a bb, win7 yeah...... don't like anything about it.

Im not even a fan of android to be honest hell i hate smartphones in generall and my dx2 just makes me hate it even more.

Yiu here all the great things about smartphones and then when you try to do something the same people go what do you expect its a phone reply.

Next phone will be a tegra3 unless some other beats it. So far it has support for h264 main and high profile which is important to me. And hopefully one that plays music without problems this thjng is just sad.
[General Questions and Answers] scorpionSE:
yeah how can we flash an android custom rom to a woman brain??

ho i forgot not enough ram available lol
[General Questions and Answers] abellimz:
I think an iphone should suit you since it brought many people over to smartphones.
[General Questions and Answers] Fulaeetoy:
Why did i get an android phone?

Why not? I want the best of both worlds.

________________________________

~ Sent from iOS/Android device
[General Questions and Answers] MalekoUK:
Why? I used to be a Windows Mobile User, but 6.5 was ollllld tat. WP7 just didn't do it for me, developers weren't as interested and loads of apps were being made for Android.

With Android you are free to make it look how you want, make it your own.

I love my Desire S and as I use Google a lot it made sense getting a tablet as well, everything syncs and works!:cool:
[General Questions and Answers] FinancialWar:
Because I hate apple, and enemy of an enemy is a friend.
[General Questions and Answers] wreckit72:
I got an Android phone because I wanted to get away from Blackberry. I had several Blackberries and got tired of having to pull the battery so often to reboot when they would freeze up.
[General Questions and Answers] cybermayberry:
Chicks dig-em
[General Questions and Answers] MattyOnXperiaX10:
Because I hate how locked down a iphone is 4g
[General Questions and Answers] negrobembon:
Chicks dig iphones and blackberries

Androids and WP7 are the phones Of MEN!(and cool smart girls)
[General Questions and Answers] jeonyx89:
I was tired of using Apple products. Been using them since the Mac SE. My first laptop was a PowerBook G3, and I still use it to this day. I had an iPhone, but switched to an Droid Incredible and loved Android since then.
[General Questions and Answers] redolf:
I was at a point to choose between iphone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II.My sister has a galaxy 3 , which i learned to root,change rom,kernel and customize the whole system.Now i have a galaxy s II and i am proud of me because i've choosed android.Iphone it is only for fans.Android is for everyone:)
[General Questions and Answers] stone_phalanges:
This post would make you think that android is complete garbage. I love android but some of the reasons people have for choosing android are stupid.

"cuz it rocksssss"

"cuz its open"

"It's cheaper"

"Roms"

These reasons sound like android is only for broke bored people who work in some sort of IT job.

I happen to think there are actually good reasons to choose an android phone over the iphone.

1. I think drag and drop and the ability to use your phone as a mass storage device are big pluses.

b.Due to the open nature of the platform it is easier to undue carrier/manufacturer crippling as is the case with wifi tether.

III.The fact that android has a user accessible file system is a huge advantage for me over the iphone. I can access many different files without having to navigate each of the different user interfaces of the apps associated with them.

-Flash support is huge for me. I know many people claim they don't need flash but I watch videos on many sites that do not have html5 versions of their catalog.

*SD card support is such a HUGE bonus that I'm surprised no one mentioned it. I won't even consider the Nexus phones because of lack of an SD. You can buy a small card that gives you more space for your stuff!!! does that even need explaining? I just don't get the resistance to SD cards...like at all. In the worst cast they can be expensive (as was the case with my 64gb microsd) but even then the price not only beats the price of an iphone the same amount of memory (by a bunch depending on which android phone) but you get more memory because of the android internal memory.

unlocked Galaxy S2+$200 microsd=$850 memory=80gb

unlocked iphone4s=$850 memory=64gb

<<Not having to sync is one of the best things in my opinion. Some love the fact that they can just plug their phone up and walk away and its ready when they come back but I think even those people once they get the hang of using their phone begin to hate syncing. I remember having a zune an syncing always sucked because it was slower that just dropping the files on the device and it could only be done from my home computer.

Make no mistake I ALSO hate apple, but I ALSO LOVE android.

If you're an iphone user and I got all this wrong let me know because every once in a while (read often) I flash a rom that makes me hate android and I might be tempted to switch.
[General Questions and Answers] ck2009:
I love how open the Android platform is, flashing roms on a weekly basis is addictive!
[General Questions and Answers] combat goofwing:
Because I wanted a phone that functioned how I wanted it to.that would run what I wanted to.That would be updated (official or unoffical) with out haviing to wait for a new model to come out.and I hate I tunes with a passion

DESIRE HD using ER3BUS ASUS TRANSFORMER on KRAKD
[General Questions and Answers] DarthCaniac:
I got an Android for a few reasons actually,

I have never had a cell phone (I had thought of getting one, and decided to bite the bullet). I wanted to get a smartphone, but Android plans were less than 50% the cost of an iPhone plan. Plus I hate Apple's DRM Nazi-ism, it is free to make android apps, and I love google :)
[General Questions and Answers] vs8:
I chose Android over the rest because I use Linux on my computer and I thought since I'm familiar with Linux and Android runs on top of it, it could help me when rooting and navigate the file system, etc.

I love the freedom it gives me to create my own experience, unlike the rest of the competition. I'm not tired to iTunes and it's full of choice.
[General Questions and Answers] MysticMi:
i got a Droid X about a year ago and i still love it to this day, i liked the way that it looked i really love the size of the screen and i like the way it functions. Im still the Droid X lover i was a year ago.
[General Questions and Answers] nyamoV2:
Plug and play. Hate how MS and apple require software to load and pull files from the phone
[General Questions and Answers] Chileno4Live:
I bought an Android smartphone because I didn't like my Blackberry bold 9700. I decided to buy the Samsung Galaxy S and I fell in love with android. I didn't like an iPhone because the possibilities were quite limited and to be honest the possibilities are still limited. I don't want to spend 600 bucks on a phone that gives you crap hardware for what you pay. iOS is also too simplistic and limited. Android gave me what I want, and I'll stick with it no matter what. Besides, Apple has no future now Steve is gone. Nothing against him though.
[General Questions and Answers] abellimz:
With an android I can also setup a FTP server and transfer files over wifi LAN.

Wireless and fast :-D

Sent from my HTC Desire
[General Questions and Answers] baoyu101:
i do not like apple so choise android
[General Questions and Answers] pantherzfinest:
my friend talked a lot about it. next big thing. finally, i went it. first android, moto photon, 2.3.4. its nice. waiting for ics if ill keep it.